FAR WITHIN REACH
Experimental, Music Video
United States
2021
Running Time: 4' 50''
Archival Footage
Color and B&W
Sound: Stereo
No Dialogue
Exhibition Formats:
Digital
ProRes 422HQ
1920x1080 (1.33:1 pillar boxed)
24fps
This essay film explores how it is to be apart and feel lonely, suffer in silence, and witness suffering. Far Within Reach is a unique musical project composed and performed by Ekin Fil & Ella Zwietnig to counter the COVID-19 pandemic's anxiety. The found-footage video concept for the music remixes German experimental filmmaker Lutz Mommartz's films with old home movies and educational reels found around the internet to explore a new sense of being close to each other under uncertainty. In the distance, solitary days turn us toward our human essence. Beyond doom scrolling, sleepless days, normality, and societal spaces, we long for a soft hand on the back, a trivial whisper, a bike ride, compassion, face to face smiles. In oddity, we discover mundane moments that give meaning to life. Facing the infinite solitude of the distance and relentless nights within the endless horizon of gone days, we learn to be together again.
Composed entirely in isolation between Istanbul and Berlin in January 2021 by Ekin Fil and Ella Zwietnig during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Far Within Reach was possible thanks to the generous support of The Goethe Institute.
Credits —
Research, Edit: Camilo Barria
Original Music: Ekin Fil & Ella Zwietnig
Recording & Mastering: Florian Zwietnig
The present film is a transformative and derivative experimental work of art that explores the concepts of juxtaposition and meaning through the montage of previously unrelated images.
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